info - unhandled socket.io url

I'm trying to use sockets to connect to a Node server I'm running localy but I keep on getting 'info - unhandled socket.io url' on the server side + "XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://localhost:8080/socket.io/?EIO=3&transport=polling&t=1424356590540-0. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://localhost:8000' is therefore not allowed access." on chrome (using address localhost:8000/index.html)

// top six lines of code to see setup
var express = require('express'), 
app = express(), 
http = require('http'),
server = http.createServer(app),
io = require('socket.io').listen(server);

server.listen(8080);

also I'm using python SimpleHTTPServer on port 8000

client code is:

var socket = io.connect('http://localhost:8080');

socket.on('connection', function(){
    console.log("connected")
});

using http://ift.tt/1Abvuox" version of sockets.io

I'm assuming the html is irrelevant since I don't have any javascript code in it (except references to angular and jquery)